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• Students will spend a great deal of time selecting their own books to read this year. They will have access to my classroom library as well as the school library, and will use book review blogs to choose reading material.

• The emphasis will be on learning to think about what they read. Each day, in class, students will write a letter to me discussing what they are reading. This will be a big part of their grade.

• We will also be reading one to two novels a month together as  a class. We will be practicing strategies for thinking about what we are reading. During Reading time we will learn skills that help us think about reading: connecting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and synthesizing. Students will apply these lessons to their own reading and reflect their progress in their daily writings.

• Students are expected to read for 30 minutes a night and homework will consist of making notes about their personal reading at home.

Goal for the year:  30 books read! (books in class will count toward goal)

September's Class Reading

  http://www.shmoop.com/percy-jackson-lightning-thief/summary.html

www.sparknotes.com › SparkNotes › Literature Study Guides

Click on the link below to go to the Audio book of :
Harry Potter and The Sorcerers Stone







My Reading Response Journal
This is a reading journal that students will complete as the year goes on. After completing one of the genre's, they will be expected to fill out a reading response journal for that book. The following is a list of books we will be reading in class and books for home. Students will receive a grade for each entry


Classroom Reads                                           Independent Reads
The Lightning Thief                                       Tuck Everlasting
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone            The Skin I'm In
Bud, Not Buddy                                             Because of Mr. Terupt
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe         Because of Winn Dixie
Dragonwings                                                  On My Honor
Walk Two Moons                                          Freak the Mighty
Holes                                                              The Schernoff Discoveries
Frightful's Mountain                                       The Light in the Forest
Flush                                                               Red Kayak
The City of Embers                                        Rachael Carson and her
Island of the Blue Dolphin                              Book That Change the World              

Students will also be allowed to pick 5 books of their choice, and 5 books from the following categories; a Biography, Tall Tale, Mystery, Historical Fiction, and Poetry.


Parents can help by encouraging reading at home. Read the book with your child and talk about it. Share a book, then share the movie. Let your child see you read. Share what were your favorite books when you were young. Not a reader yourself? Let them share their book with you.